"IF ONLY, Chinese leaders might be thinking, Tibetan medicine had the power to pacify. In recent years rural incomes in eastern areas of the vast Tibetan plateau have been soaring, thanks to a surge in Chinese demand for Tibetan herbal remedies. But in late January the same region experienced the biggest outbreak of violent unrest since a surge of Tibetan discontent across the plateau in 2008. Police have shot dead several demonstrators." (Quoted from article)